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...palpable as the first chills of fall; flags sprouted on a million lapels and fluttered from a thousand taxicabs in a wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from Islamabad, not as they had a decade ago from Riyadh or Baghdad or Amman. And as predecessors in his high office--including his father--had done before, George W. Bush drove from the White House to the Capitol, and in an address to Congress and the watching world, discharged the weightiest responsibility that any President can ever be asked to shoulder. Americans, Bush said, had to prepare...
...Peres's purpose, of course, is to apprise Washington of Israel?s reservations over the proposals. And to be sure, Israel - like the Palestinians - has plenty of cause for skepticism over the plan. Indeed, it's hard to avoid seeing the latest proposals from Amman and Cairo as a warmed-over version of the cease-fire President Clinton tried desperately, and in vain, to broker last October at Sharm el-Sheikh. Except that much has changed in the region since last October...
...Intifadeh was a resounding social success: plane hijackers munched on puff pastry, militia leaders from struggles past greeted each other warmly. It was a sunny reunion of anybody who's somebody in the region's resistance underworld. Intended to compensate for the disappointment of the recent Arab Summit in Amman - which failed to produce violent rhetoric or come up with funds to support the Palestinians -- the Tehran summit ended up being mostly about Iran's regional ambitions. Delegates from 34 Islamic countries assembled to hear Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demand the annihilation of Israel and cast...
...Last week, the assembled leaders relished a new era in Arab relations, holding a non-emergency summit for the first time in 14 years. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pitched a tent outside a palace and visited a donut shop during a surprise walkabout. A rumor swirled around Amman that Saddam himself was planning to attend. It would have made an electrifying appearance. But he failed to show...
...plays Middle East diplomacy like an NBA guard: with a broad game plan in mind but with quick movements, spontaneity and flexibility between quarters. Sometimes flying commercial, he's equally likely to order up Air Force planes on a moment's notice to jet him to Cairo, Damascus or Amman...